As a follow-up to the crop circle story, and to my reminiscences of the charming Dorset village of Cerne Abbas and its famous giant, here's a snapshot of the old fella, who's known locally as "The Rude Man," for obvious reasons. Although many believe him to be of neolithic origin, there's no mention of him in medieval chronicles, so he may be much younger than that--450 or so, dating to a revival of interest in pagan rituals, oddly coincident with the Reformation, as if the peasantry, confused by what was in and what was out, said "A plague on both your churches" and reverted to the old ways.